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Honest work is much better than a mansion.
Leo Tolstoy
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Leo Tolstoy
Age: 82 †
Born: 1828
Born: January 1
Died: 1910
Died: January 1
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Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: the gift of seeing what others have not seen.
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For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness
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I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.
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Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.
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Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).
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A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to pick up the twenty, and split them all. Then he lost his temper, scattered the peas in all directions and ran away
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And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.
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Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness
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Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?
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If goodness has causes, it is not goodness if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.
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In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people.
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There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.
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Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all.
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It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.
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No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit
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Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.
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We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
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I'll tell you truly: I value my thought and work terribly, but in essence - think about it - this whole world of ours is just a bit of mildew that grew over a tiny planet. And we think we can have something great - thoughts, deeds! They're all grains of sand
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What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does.
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